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I didn’t lose gold,

I won silver: Sindhu

his is the confidence which “It brings me an immense amount of pleasure to bring back
PV Sindhu was showing af- the Silver consecutively for the second year in BWF World
ter the defeat in the finals
of World Badminton Cham- Championships. I didn’t lose the Gold, I won the Silver and
T pionship at Nanjing (China). I can proudly say my Silver Sparkles” manmohan singh quotes
Had she shown this grit in the finals
against Spanish giant Carolina Marin, ace badminton player PV Sindhu as saying immediately after
the result could have been different. her intense encounter
Sindhu has been losing all the finals
continuously. She lost Rio Olympic fi-
nal, then Hong Kong Open final twice in
2017 and 2018, Super Series Final 2017,
Indian Open and Thailand Open finals
in 2018 and now this Golden Girl of In-
dian Badminton PV Sindhu once again
failed to clinch World title as she lost
to Carolina Marin of Spain 19-21, 10-21
in 46 minutes in the women’s singles
final of the BWF World Badminton
Championships 2018 at Nanjing, China
on Sunday. Sindhu, lost in the finals last
year also but then her opponent was Ja-
pan’s Nozomi Okuhara, whom she beat
here in quarterfinals. After the match,
Sindhu said, “It is frustrating to lose
in the final again. I will have to come
back stronger and prepare for the next
tournament”.
The first game was played on equal
terms. Sindhu was moving quickly
and compelling the Marin to commit
mistakes. Her long serves and deep
tosses making it difficult for the Marin
to execute aggressive strokes. At one
stage Sindhu was leading 14-9 this was
the turning point. Here she let Marin
off the hooks and gifted two points
through unforced errors. This changed
the whole scenario. Now Sindhu was
dancing on Marin’s tune. The length of
Sindhu’s parabolic tosses lost length;
this made the Spaniard play her power-
ful smashes and deceptive drops quite
easily. This made Sindhu upset and she